A second week of already difficult debate over police officials’ training in Israel doubled in complexity Monday when a letter emerged saying a private citizen had paid for the trip, leading to city councillors excoriating the city manager for pursuing the policy.

A police trip to Israel for a counterterrorism seminar drew a flood of comment at Monday’s meeting of the City Council, resulting in an epic two-hour public comment session of which 70 percent of the time — that’s 23 of 34 speakers — was spent on the topic.

Mahmood Karzai, owner of The Helmand restaurant in East Cambridge and brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, is under investigation on corruption charges from U.S. prosecutors, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

It was about a year ago Dr. Elena Bodnar discussed her combination gas mask and bra at the annual Ig Nobel Awards — winning the 2009 Ig Nobel Public Health Prize — and now will be showing off the commercial version, which is ready for sale.

No arrests or investigations have resulted from more than 1,420 security checkpoints MBTA police have run at T stations since Oct. 10, 2006.

Neither pollsters nor top news sources acknowledge that the plunge in the president’s popularity results from more than a lingering recession — namely an extreme and unprecedented split of a rabid far right and disappointed progressives.

The Cambridge Police Department sergeants in the Peabody neighborhood invite the area’s residents and businesses to a meeting Tuesday.

David Ray Griffin ends a 15-city speaking tour with a date in Cambridge. David Ray Griffin is a theologian and educator who may be most famous — or notorious — for his belief that the Bush administration let the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, hap …

More than two months after city councillors lashed into the city manager for ignoring their order to take down surveillance cameras, the scene replayed Monday as the city manager admitted the cameras still stood.

Complaining of a lack of information and results from the committee formed after the racially charged arrest of a Harvard professor, city councillors rejected — for now — the city manager’s request for $31,360 in committee expenses.